I noticed before i even got to a person (outside of the starting town) that i could sell my stuff too, i had accumilated a bunch of stuff and made atleast 1500 caps, and it's not like it was a one time thing, i find myself discovering a lot of pricey things while doing quests and what not.

personally i'm just saying it seems a lot easier making caps in FO:NV than it was is FO:3 but im not complaining about it! :wink_smile:

Are things more expensive to buy?

Experience, my boy. Being comftorable with the systems means you're less likely to packrat everything and just sell it.

It's been a while since I played Fallout 3, but I don't think the prices are much higher, if at all. I think the difference is that vendors have a lot more caps this time around. In order to sell all your loot from a typical scavving run in FO3, you might have to use two or three different vendors, or wait around for that vendor's inventory to restock (which, of course, is a bad idea in this game if you're playing hardcoe). In this game, most vendors have at least 500 caps on them, and usually it's quite a bit more than that.

So it's not that your items are selling for more money (I think weapons and armour sell for quite a bit less, actually, but that might just be because my Barter is still low), but rather that you can sell them all more easily.

EDIT: Actually, come to think of it, the items are definitely cheaper. I remember I always used to collect mercenary armour and repair it up while I was adventuring, but when I did that in Primm today, even at 100 CND it was worth less than 100 caps, and that's regardless of Barter (I wound up selling it for something like 28).

In FO3 caps became useless after a certain stage to me, at least in NV I can gamble, when I get to play it that is.

That is so much stuff that I have left behind. Like Tale said, it's experience. I picked up EVERYTHING in FO3, screw it if it weight 15 and was worth 2 caps, I'd trek back to wherever and sell that thing.

Now I tend to leave stuff sitting and plan to come back if I ever need it to craft. So I pretty much just loot bodies and safes for now.

Also, I feel like I have food coming out my ears, the stuff is everywhere and I don't have Survivalist.

As for things being expensive, some things maybe. I've seen a couple decent shape (almost to maintain zone) 9mm and 10mm pistols for quite a bit (around 400-500) when they had a couple not quite a good condition for far less. You could have bought the cheapies and repaired them to pretty close to that level.

Weapons do seem a lot more expensive later in the game, specifically in and around Freeside. I don't remember any FO3 common, regular weapons costing as much as these do in less-than-perfect condition.

So caps are easier to make yes, but some items do seem more expensive as well later in the game.